The June 2026 issue is now available for Limelight subscribers to read. Available in two formats, you can explore the magazine through our flipbook version or read each article individually through our website.

Features

Inspired by Jack Liebeck, we survey classical music’s oddest, most grisly deaths.

by Clive Paget

Soprano Emma Pearson on why operetta shouldn’t be underestimated.

by Jansson J. Antmann

How Eddy Chen and Brett Yang became superstar duo TwoSet Violin.

by Katie Yap

The pressures and funding models reshaping arts organisations’ programming.

by Samuel Cairnduff

Yve Blake discusses her radical reimaging of Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare.

by Lenny Ann Low

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